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Sengbe Pieh (c. 1814 – c. 1879), [1] also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez [2] and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people [citation needed] who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839.
La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in violation of European treaties against the Atlantic ...
Curaçao had a slave revolt in 1795, led by Tula. In Venezuela, the insurrection led by José Leonardo Chirino occurred in 1795. In Barbados, a slave revolt occurred in 1816, led by Bussa. In Guyana there was the Demerara Rebellion of 1795. [57] In the British Virgin Islands, minor slave revolts occurred in 1790, 1823 and 1830.
The revolt aboard La Amistad, the background of the slave trade and its subsequent trial is retold in a celebrated [32] poem by Robert Hayden entitled "Middle Passage", first published in 1962. Howard Jones published Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy in 1987.
Slave revolt on La Amistad in 1839. La Amistad, general-purpose cargo ship that also carried slaves on occasion. A successful slave revolt on the ship gave rise to a case that reached the Supreme Court in United States v. The Amistad. Backhouse (1785 ship) was launched at Chester. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. In 1792–1793 she made ...
The Amistad is sailing into Yonkers on Wednesday, July 31. Learn the ship's history, tour for free. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987) is a history of a notable slave mutiny of 1839 and its aftermath, written by professor Howard Jones. The book explores the events surrounding the slave mutiny on the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839. The ship was taken into ...
Madison Washington was an American enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in America on November 7, 1841, on board the brig Creole, which was transporting 134 other slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, as part of the coastwise slave trade. [1] Washington was born into slavery in Virginia.